Post #2659272
2026-04-13 00:44 UTC
Our model of software is still like manufactured goods: there's one product released, and everyone gets an identical copy.
I think LLMs will turn software into #houseplants - every user will have a slightly different clone, grow it, kill it, start a new one.
Maintainers don't want LLM code. Too much to review, too little value, merge headache. For users incentive to submit is also low: very slow process, with low chance of success. But an LLM can keep reimplementing their pet feature.
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@kornel@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 01:01
I'm not saying that would be a good thing, but the imbalance between the volume of code LLMs can generate vs code that people can maintain is so massive that I can't imagine things staying the way they are. It makes better-than-LLM quality expensive and bottlenecked in comparison. This creates incentives to shift to quantity over quality, and to find ways to make do with buggy code.